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Full Name

Patricia Lockhart Fleming

Bio

Now professor emeritus at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Patricia Fleming taught bibliography and book history. She is the author of a series of bibliographies of early Canadian imprints and, most recently, was project director, co-general editor, and volume editor of the History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada published in three volumes in French and English in 2004, 2005, and 2007.

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Country

Canada

Case studies by Patricia Lockhart Fleming

Case study :

The Business of an Eighteenth-Century Printing Office: The Neilson Paybook

A distinctive feature of early printing in Canada is the central role of newspapers. Often the first production at a new press, the modest four-page weekly sustained not just the community but the printer himself. This small book of receipts issued from 1793 to 1798 by John Neilson, heir to the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec, records payments to printers, newspaper carriers, a translator, an illustrator, and other members of the Quebec trade.